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Libraries as a dynamic cooperation power. Practical cases of cooperation By Henk Middelveld. The Netherlands in Europe. The Dutch Public Libraries. 1 national library organisation NBLC 10 Provincial Library Centres 13 Libraries with a scientific Support function 491 public libraries.
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Libraries as a dynamic cooperation power Practical cases of cooperation By Henk Middelveld
The Dutch Public Libraries 1 national library organisation NBLC 10 Provincial Library Centres 13 Libraries with a scientific Support function 491 public libraries.
Cooperation is fashion • HOED – Doctors, Pharmacies etc. share one building • Brede school – Primary schools and all kinds of services • Buurtbalie – banks, postoffice, commercial services share a building • Kulturhus – libraries, social services, tourist information, you name it!
Different models • One building, different rooms • One building, sharing room • One building, one program • One building,one organisation, one director • More buildings, one program • Kulturhus
Different forms – increasing importance • Oral agreement • Projects (ad hoc) • Contracts • Joint ventures • Concern • Merger
Almere • New library, theater and archive building • Status: plans are approved
Almelo • Library, local radio, meeting and event rooms, cultural and education programs, cooperation with museum (original art in the library. • Status: in use from 199? • One beautiful building, one organisation, one very creative director • Special: library branch in football stadium
Apeldoorn • 2 Museum, 1 library, 1 archive • Status: plans approved, building proces is started. • Slogan: CODA = Culture under roof in Apeldoorn.
Deventer • Library of the Saxion High School • Library and archive of the city • Library with Scientific Support function for the province of Overijssel • Status: the City and Athenaeum Library started in 1485 • Two locations, one organisation, one director.
Doorn • Library,Tourist office, Police station, Welfare foundation, Town hall. • Status: plans approved by the city council, residents can choose between plan A and B
Enchede • Library and adult education centre, 2nd largest collection of music CD’s • Status: preparation plans for merger • Two buildings, one program, two directors. • Slogan: working togather to a centre for knowledge, literature, culture and music
Gouda • Projectoffice BAM = Library, Archive, Museum – cooperation with other local cultural institutions • Start 11-9-2003 with full-time project leader
Groningen • Library, Scientific Support function, Centre for Different Reading, cafe • Branches connected to schools incl. all kind of cultural and educational activities • Status: more than 10 years operational • Remarkable: the library is fully woven in the Provincial library Network!
Leeuwarden • Frisian Literary Museum and Documentation Centre, Provincial Library and Buma Library, National archive in Friesian • Started in 2002 • One building, one organisation, one director
Lelystad • NLP = New Land Poldermuseum,Social Historic Centre Flevoland, National Archive Flevoland,Archaeological depot, Community Archives,Flevolands Library Bureau • Status: merger end 2003, new building end 2004.
Middelburg • Public Library, Provincial Library, Provincial library Centre, Technical library Vlissingen, Music Library, Zeeuws Documentation Centre. • One building, one program, one director. • Slogan: Enterprise in knowledge, culture and meeting place
Ommen • Library, Child care, Theatre, Sports facilities, Youth Centre • One building, different organisations, different directors. • Remark: Only buildings knotted together, no cooperation. Missed chance!!
Oss • Library, Music School, Creative Centre,Cultural Centre (theatre- 600 places, film, music) pop music centre) and Cultural services for education • Status: in use from 1997 • One building, one organisation, one dynamic director
Soest • Library, Cultural centre, theatre, Art Gallery, Bowling, Sports, Church • One building, one organisation for the building, one director • Slogan: towards a broad library.
Tilburg • Library, Adult education Centre, IB Group • Different buildings, different organisations, one program
Zwartewaterland • Library, Child care, local Radio Station, Welfare desk, housing elderly people, housing handicapped people, expo room, cafe corner, cultural program • Status: in use 2003 • One building, one board for the building, different director • Remarkable: the first Overijssel Kulturhus
Zwolle • Archive of the city • Provincial Archive • Audiovisual Documentation Centre of the Province of Overijssel • Documentation Centre World War 2 of Overijssel • Status: in use from 2001 • One building, one organisation, one director
We discover: … the Swedish Kulturhus
Kulturhus 1 organisation 1 management 1 building 1 high value package of services 1 dynamic program Customizing is essential
Kulturhus Big is powerful Slogan Only the combination is successful small is beautiful
In 2000 LIBRARY PLAZA Care plaza Education plaza Backoffice / Bigger scale Culture plaza Sport plaza Broadband Digital highway kulturhus Local community
Run and fun Run shoppen Digital acces Physical acces Selfservice Reception and clientservice Pop. collecttons/ databases Information Read and workspace Advice theater, gallery, postoffice, Tourist office, police Cafe (Reading) Cultural and educational activities. Fun shoppen
More information • My book about Kulturhus, In Dutch.
Conclusions • Big libraries > 500.000 inhabitants will survive as stand-alone • Smaller libraries will have to establish all kinds of cooperation • The Kulturhusconcept is suitable for libraries in villages, smaller cities and suburbs of the big cities.
imagination Use your imagination